I had a remarkable experience in Austin, Texas with my friend Nathan Latka and 500 of his closest Founder friends at the #founder500. The Founder500 was a remarkable conference where I was privileged to speak as one of the keynote speakers. This was an unexpectedly awesome collection of hundreds of founders of SaaS companies. Some were small, some were big but everyone had common experiences and challenges. It was quite unlike anything I’d ever been…
I’m delighted to be speaking on a couple of different topics at the Minnesota PMI Professional Development Days (PDD) this year. This is the first in-person meeting of the PDD for the PMI-MN in two years and I’m excited to be a part of it. I’ll be speaking about creating a hybrid environment in a session called “Bringing Agile, Project Management and Portfolio Management together” and then a second Symposium Day session called “The Perils…
I was delighted to be interviewed by Nathan Latka on his top entrepreneurs podcast. Nathan is a high-energy interviewer who is great to meet with but really wants you to know your numbers and be ready to be challenged. You’ll find the whole interview on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/QmmVu2GD0hA.
I’m delighted to have accepted Nathan Latka’s invitation to speak at the upcoming Founder500 conference in Austin Texas on September 1st. This conference focuses on hundreds of top Software as a Service company founders of all sizes. I’m one of only 60+ speakers so I’m a small part of something big but it’s still great to be able to meet folks there and tell a bit of our story at HMS Software. The conference is…
When under pressure, we all tend to retreat to that which is familiar. That’s not just in project management. It’s true everywhere. I’ve been studying a bit of Abraham Maslow thanks to some other ideas I’ve been working on associated to Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs”. In 1966, he was quoted in the Psychology of Science as saying “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as…
